UVC Inactivation of dsDNA and ssRNA Viruses in Water: UV Fluences and a qPCR-Based Approach to Evaluate Decay on Viral Infectivity

Food and Environmental Virology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 260-268

  Calgua, Byron ^a   Carratalà, Anna ^a,b   Guerrero Latorre, Laura ^a   de Abreu Corrêa, Adriana ^a   Kohn, Tamar ^b   Sommer, Regina ^c   Girones, Rosina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adenovirus; JC polyomavirus; MS2 bacteriophage; qPCR; UV inactivation

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADENOVIRIDAE; CELL LINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISINFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS C; JC VIRUS; KINETICS; LEVIVIRUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYOMAVIRIDAE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION TOLERANCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VIRION; VIRUS INACTIVATION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ADENOVIRUSES, HUMAN; CELL LINE; DISINFECTION; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; JC VIRUS; KINETICS; LEVIVIRUS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; POLYOMAVIRIDAE; RADIATION TOLERANCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY; RNA, VIRAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VIRION; VIRUS INACTIVATION;

EID: 84939873136     PISSN: 18670334     EISSN: 18670342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12560-014-9157-1     Document Type: Article

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